Ok, been thinking on this. Especially because, I did another character from this particular Universe, so I have to be as critical with this as I was with that, for the exact same reasons. That being said, there's a number of complications but we'll get into those and they're not as extensive as I first thought, now that I've reviewed it all.
1. My first major thing with this, is that King Thanos is just Thanos but more powerful. However, I'm reminded that
Superman Prime exists. This is literally the same thing: a future version of a pre-established character that is more powerful. That said, King Thanos has more appearences, more feats and, Hell, more character. So, if we allow Superman Prime on the site, whose basically just made an appearence for a few pages in every comic he's shown up in (4 to be exact) vs. King Thanos whose shown up in 5 comics, all of which were devoted to him. I'm just saying, that if we can justify Superman Prime's existence, then we can justify King Thanos.
2. Scaling. This is the big one. Because, without this there will be no point and this is the most complex issue with the character. See, a lot of King Thanos' feats would have to be taken with a grain salt due to being an alternate Universe. This is very similiar to
Cosmic Ghost Rider, when he took an entire army of heroes. But, we can't use that for scaling because those heroes are vastly different than the ones we know. They could have been weaker, they could have been stronger. We don't know. But, there is another wrinkle here. King Thanos' timeline, is the 616 Universe's just far ahead. So, the characters' histories are intact, just like I pointed out in my CGR Profile overhaul. More importantly, this means that the future version of characters King Thanos fought (King Thor and Maestro) should also be intact. Cyttorak, the Celestials, they shold have all the same feats. Though there are some problems. Let's got through them:
Cyttorak: We know he's dead. We know that he was killed. We don't know how. We can't use him, because the specifics of how he was overcome are unknown.
The Celestials: They were defeated via Black Bolt's death scream. That should be an outlier for Black Bolt, but we don't know if Thanos did anything to amp his powers. It happened, but it's too vague. Plus, Thanos didn't do it himself.
God Quarry Thanos: Seems like the obvious one but there's a problem. King Thanos wanted to die. He brought his younger self to the future to kill him. That was the point of the entire arc. So, we have to take the amount of effort he put into the fight as suspect. Did he allow Thanos to just beat on him until he was at Death's door? Did just put up enough of fight to try and make it convinicing? It was said that Thanos only grew stronger over time, so how would even a younger, God Quarry Empowered Thanos even do that much damage? The entire point of Thanos Wins was that Thanos continued to grow more powerful even as everyone else (mostly) was growing weaker. There's too many what-if's and contradictions here, if you ask me.
Galactus: Galactu's power levels are subject to change based on how much he has fed. This makes it hard to use him as a benchmark unless we're given an actual indication of how much he's fed. Otherwise, we're making assumptions.
Maestro: LOL, no. It's debatable if Maestro could take normal Thanos, let alone a more powerful older version.
King Thor: Now, this is one that I could see. We know how powerful Base Old King Thor is and the comic is explicit that OKT fought King Thanos. If we except that this is the OKT we've seen throughout multiple comics, then this is the straightest, least contradictory feat to use for scaling, IMHO.
Based on all of that, I believe that King Thanos should be given a 2-C rating for defeating and killing Old King Thor. Nothing else. In fact it should be something like:
Low Multiverse level (Defeated and killed Old King Thor),
Higher with Twilight Sword.
So those are my thoughts. I've done this to streamline the scaling as much as possible while justifying King Thanos' addition to our wiki. This will keep things nice and simple with little room for argument in the future.
